Issue #12 of the broadsheet newspaper publication of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago, New York City and Boston. May 2009 articles include: Resurrecting the '30s: A response to David Harvey and James Heartfield by Ian Morrison; Film Review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Sunit Singh; Progress or regress? The future of the Left under Obama by Chris Cutrone, Stephen Duncombe, Pat Korte, Charles Post, and Paul Street; Symptomology: Historical transformations in social-political context by Chris Cutrone.